Universals of Language Today
This book collects the contributions presented at the international congress held at the University of Bologna in January 2007, where leading scholars of different persuasions and interests offered an up-to-date overview of the current status of the research on linguistic universals. The papers that...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2009.
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| Series: | Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory,
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8825-4 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- How Universals are Linguistic Categories? By Paolo Ramat
- An Empirical Test of the Agglutination Hypothesis By Martin Haspelmath
- What Linguistic Universals Can be True of By Aditi Lahiri and Frans Plank
- Universals of Prosodic Structure By Irene Vogel
- Lexical Integrity as a Formal Universal: A Constructionist View By Geert Booij
- Searching for Universals in Compounding By Sergio Scalise and Emiliano Guevara
- Universals and Features By Greville G. Corbett
- Methods for Finding Language Universals in Syntax By William Croft
- The Fundamental Left-Right Asymmetry of Natural Languages By Guglielmo Cinque.-The Branching Direction Theory of Word Order Correlations Revisited By Matthew S. Dryer
- Universals and Semantics By Denis Delfitto
- Universals and Diachrony: The Evolution of Latin Word (Dis)Order By Elisabetta Magni
- Typological Universals and Second Language Acquisition By Anna Giacalone Ramat.